Turning off FileVault

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Wednesday, November 5. 2008

Posted by christian in mac os x

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In my last blog entry I have written about some problems I have had with FileVault because of having to less free disk space left. After that experience I found lots of comments reporting problems all related to FileVault. Hence I decided to turn off FileVault and use encrypted container files instead. Again lack of free disk space turned out to be a problem. Right after I triggered the decryption of my home directory by pushing the "Turn off FileVault" button I was prompted to free some disk space, namely almost 100 GB!!! This is the amount of free space the decryption process needs while turning off FileVault. Quite a lot, considering that the size of the whole hard drive is 250GB. Hence, I recommend to think twice before turning on FileVault.

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